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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Neulinx Ltd
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £90,000.0 - £130,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Collaborative Software, Databases, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Programming Tools, Node.Js, TypeScript, Management of Software Versions, Backend, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Production Code, Cloudflare, Free and Open-Source Software
- **Published:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/backend-engineer-city-of-london-london/2777731991-2/

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on experience building and operating production backend systems
 * Fluency with TypeScript, Node.js, and systems design
 * Experience with infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
 * Track record improving reliability, developer experience, release quality, or operational maturity
 * Ability to write production-quality code independently
 * Clear communication and strong judgement in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
 * Comfortable helping other engineers level up around backend, infrastructure, and release processes

Nice to have

 * Early-stage or founding engineer experience
 * Experience with developer tools, SDKs, real-time collaboration, or local-first software
 * Exposure to Cloudflare, real-time databases, or collaborative application backends
 * Experience building infrastructure for products serving both end users and developer customers
 * Open-source contributions or involvement in developer communities

## Description

Following £12 million in funding, the business is now scaling its product and engineering capability. They are looking for a Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to join an engineering team of 15 and strengthen the backend systems, infrastructure, release processes, and operational foundations behind their product.

This is a high-ownership role in a small, fast-moving team. You'll work across backend services, deployment infrastructure, observability, incident response, CI/CD, and release reliability, helping the team ship faster and more safely as the company enters its next stage of growth.

The culture is pragmatic and product-led. They care about craft, momentum, strong judgement, and simple systems that work well.

What you'll be doing

 * Owning and improving backend systems, services, APIs, and infrastructure
 * Improving release safety, speed, versioning, testing, and rollback processes
 * Building and scaling systems that support both end users and developer customers
 * Investigating and resolving production incidents and infrastructure issues
 * Improving CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility
 * Working closely with product engineers across the stack
 * Documenting what you build so the wider engineering team can move faster


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